Unfamiliar Culture Quotes

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.

I just couldn't get along with L.A. It just wasn't me.

Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.

I'm homesick everywhere I go, but England has a negative effect on my spirit to a profound degree. That trip from Heathrow into London is worse than the flight over there. It's just so grey, and I'm not a pub person, and the traffic in London gives me a heart attack. It's not a comforting place, on any level, to me.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

When I came to England, everybody was indoors all the time, and nobody said hello to each other. That was weird.

I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

A lunatic lifestyle on the road doesn't permit you to get too hip to stuff as you should.

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

Texas is as alien as Mars.

A waiter at the hotel kept telling me that Cape Town is just like a European city, but it's not like that at all. It doesn't feel safe, and I didn't really go out at night.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

Maputo is a difficult place to play.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.

Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.